Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Fear

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.